Coulson: Or how Journos sometimes behave badly…

Memorable line from Frazer Nelson of the Spectator who noted on the Daily Politics just now that the careers of all spin doctors end something like this… Guido reckons it is because Coulson’s junior at the News of the World as about to dob him in… Here’s how the story first broke the year before last…

Interestingly Steve Richards thinks in the big round of things that this is one of the smaller stories of the day… I’d probably agree, but mostly because we already had the broad outline of the story more than 18 months ago… But it is curious just how reluctant British journalists are to critique their peers…

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